Weekly Photography Challenge

For the year 2012 I am doing a project where every week I take on self assignment. The idea is to practice and improve my photography skills by having an image in my mind and then trying to make a photograph of that, or in a more documentary style trying to tell a story about something. I predict that the true evolution of this project will make itself clear in time but the main idea is to constantly be exploring my photography.

Well what do you do in the middle of winter in Minnesota. Other than fish on the frozen lakes you have duct tape boat races. I hade a very hard time reducing the many hundreds of photographs I made of these event but have included only the best here.

This week I visited home with perfect timing for a fresh snow. I went on a walk with Zuly and enjoyed the woods. One unique thing I found was a pile of snow sitting on a hanging rope. I thought the snow looked like a turtle climbing and yes I know a turtle couldn't really climb like that.

This week I had a few class assignments and some student senate activities. My favorite one from this week is above. I did a composite of three self portraits for a "and now there were three" assignment. I also made a shinny photography of some DVDs. Also this week there was a dodgeball game which was a challenge because of the fast motion and the low light. There was also one event of the club olympics.

This week was a relatively uneventful photography week for me. At least in photographs I took. I did all the post production for the school photographs my class did as well as taking a few of them myself. I did make this photograph above for a window-light portrait assignment and I really like it. I had a beautiful model and I feel like a did a good job in portraying the mood I was looking for.